Aesthetically Speaking

Talent on the order of Karen Malina White usually comes along not at all, much less everyday. Gifted with an arcing range, White can tickle you half to death with her comedic abilities and leave your jaw on the floor with her dramatic prowess.

Seems just about every time you turn around there's another next-big-thing in the music business. And most, on arrival, don't stick around long. They flash in the pan and that, basically, is all she wrote.

As a variation on the old joke about lawyers, What do you call 5,000 performance art/spoken word artists at the bottom of the ocean? Answer: a good start. Most have slightly more talent than you'll find in the average grade-school skit.

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